1. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik  announced to set up a library and museum at the birth place of Das. He said that the award carrying cash of Rs 10 lakh will be presented to Odia writers for creative English literature.

2 The State government today declared summer vacation for all higher education institutes from May 5 to May 31.

3. The Orissa High Court (HC) on Tuesday quashed the state government’s decision of merging schools having less than 20 students.

4.As many as 9,889 persons in the state tested positive for Coronavirus in the past 24 hours. New Positive Cases-9889,In quarantine- 5611, Local contacts- 4278

5.The National Testing Agency, has postponed the JEE(Main) 2021 May session, which was scheduled to be held on 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 of this month, informed an official statement today.

6. Odisha State Housing Board (OSHB) donated Rs 20 lakh to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund on Monday.

7.As a preventive measures against Corona, the Orissa High Court has issued fresh guidelines on filing of new cases. E-Filing system has been made mandatory instead of drop-box method which was noticed earlier.

8.Lt Governor Anil Baijal Tuesday directed district magistrates and senior police officials to conduct intensive survey in their areas and identify potential "super-spreader" sites.

9.The need for RT-PCR test in healthy individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel may be completely removed to reduce the load on laboratories, recommended an ICMR advisory for COVID-19 testing during the second wave of the pandemic.

10 The British Prime Minister's office said the USD 334 million project would include a sales office, 'clinical trials, research and development and possibly manufacturing of vaccines'.

11.The Delhi high court on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to the Centre as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated after it sought to wriggle out of its liability to supply 700 tonnes of medical-grade oxygen to the national capital.

12.Jio Biden aims to vaccinate 70% of American aduts by July 4.,21

13.ICMR  states-RT -PCR not needed for travel within states.  

14.Delhi Police registers 113 FIRs related to fraud of Covid-19 medicines

15.Madrss High Court directs BSNL to wages to contact workers by 15th of every month.